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A group of investors led by golf great Arnold Palmer, film star Clint Eastwood and former baseball commissioner Peter Ueberroth is close to a deal to buy the famed Pebble Beach golf resort for as much as $1 billion, according to reports.
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Phil Coles will fly to Seoul on 18 June 1999 to receive the verdict on his future with the International Olympic Committee organisation.
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Allsport Photography (USA), a division of Getty Images, has renewed and extended its agreement with SportsLine USA.
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The 2000 ATP World Championships will be staged in Lisbon, Portugal, with the following year?s event moving to Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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Asia is threatening to walk out of this week's FIFA congress and says it will boycott the qualification period for the 2002 World Cup over the continuing row over tournament berths.
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The Fox network has signed a major multi-million dollar deal to begin broadcasting Dominican Republic baseball games.
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A leading legal expert in London says the decision to rule in favour of the Premier League's en bloc sale of exclusive broadcast rights is 'out of line' with those made in Europe on the same collective selling issue.
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Nasdaq-listed Quokka Sports have announced the addition of four new members to its executive team.
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USA Broadcasting, the eighth largest television broadcast group in the US, has signed a broad, multi-year alliance with the Dallas Mavericks, the first local sports partnership for USAB Dallas Channel 49, set to launch this November.
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Total Sports, a provider of online coverage of college sports, has added
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The biggest event on the domestic golf tour, the Indian PGA Championship, has now become a specially sanctioned event of the Asian PGA tour, officials said on Tuesday.
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The Rugby Football Union (RFU) has confirmed to sportbusiness.com that it has failed to secure a title sponsor for its domestic cup competitions for the new season which starts on Sunday.
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National Football League (NFL) team the Denver Broncos has unveiled a raft of new broadcasting initiatives for its Invesco Field stadium, done in partnership with AT&T Broadband and ESPN.
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Boxing fans will have to wait until October to see former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson in a boxing ring, despite a previous announcement this week stating that the renowned boxer would fight in September.
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Kirch, the owner of the television rights for Germany's premier soccer league, plans to offer a cheaper subscription rate to win more clients for its loss-making PremiereWorld pay-TV channel, a German magazine reported over the weekend.
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Australian sports fans soon may have to pay to see Australia play cricket in countries other than Britain and a host of other events deemed too unpopular to deserve free-to-air television coverage.
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Video game giant Electronic Arts has signed a three-year deal with Talladega Superspeedway, naming the famous NASCAR Winston Sup Series autumn race the EA SPORTS 500.
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Insurance firm AMP has scooped two top sponsorship awards for its Sydney Olympic Games programme.
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